France to host males’s World Cup in 2031, Japan will get 2030 girls’s match

BERLIN — Victor Wembanyama can have an opportunity to play a house World Cup in 2031. 

France was awarded the internet hosting rights to the 2031 males’s match by basketball’s governing physique FIBA on Wednesday, with Japan getting the 2030 Ladies’s World Cup. 

“Japan and France are each elite organizers of global-scale occasions, having hosted the 2 most up-to-date summer time Olympic Video games, in 2020 and 2024, respectively,” FIBA stated.

Wembanyama was one of many major sights of the Paris Olympics because the San Antonio Spurs star led France to a silver medal, scoring 26 factors within the closing in opposition to america. 

The French cities of Lyon, Lille and Paris will arrange the Aug. 29-Sept. 14 males’s match, with the ultimate section to be performed within the capital.

FIBA stated the 2030 girls’s match shall be held Nov. 26–Dec. 8 within the Japanese capital of Tokyo.

Japan’s girls additionally received silver on the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. 

Japan hosted the 2006 males’s world championship and was a co-host in 2023. France will arrange the match for the primary time. 

The subsequent girls’s World Cup shall be held in September in Berlin, whereas the 2027 males’s World Cup shall be hosted by Qatar.